ABSTRACT
The Baroness is the youngest daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, Bart., one of the leading figures in the political history of the early part of the century, and long the champion of popular rights. The earliest efforts of Miss Burdett-Coutts were devoted to the service of the Church of England, which it was her earnest wish to see firmly planted in the Colonies. In the year 1847, carrying this desire into effect, she endowed the Bishoprics of Capetown, South Africa, and of Adelaide, South Australia, both of them modeled exactly on the English system. The gulf dividing the West from the East End of London, deep as it now is, was deeper twenty-five years ago. It was a subject on which Charles Dickens often dwelt. He speaks of the journey from the one district to the other as one of the most extraordinary transitions that could be experienced.
